Sam Roberts created quite the stir when he gave a harsh critique of Bianca Belair last Saturday on the NXT Takeover: Phoenix Preshow. Roberts called Belair overrated, said she didn’t deserve to be wrestling on a Takeover event and thought she had no chance of emerging victorious in her match against Shayna Baszler.

Roberts was asked if he had remorse for his comments and he was emphatic with his response:

I know Mark Henry has started a campaign saying I owe Bianca Belair an apology. I certainly will not be apologizing to Bianca Belair because my opinion is my opinion. Do I think that she deserves to be at TakeOver after her performance? You’ll have to ask me at the end of March. The next TakeOver is in April. I will tell you in April if Bianca Belair, in my opinion, deserves to be at TakeOver. But I found that match, at the beginning of TakeOver, it felt underwhelming to me, so I talked about it.”

There were people after the show who had conversations with me about the way I said what I said, but the fact is that I said what I said, so it kind of is what it is. It’s exactly as you saw it and that’s kind of it. Was everybody thrilled with it? No. That’s what I mean about having conversations, but those are, again, maybe things that I don’t exactly want to get into at this moment. However, we’ll see how things go as we move forward.

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